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Lauri Love fights extradition to US for allegedly hacking U.S. govt agencies

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Dissent

Bethany Horne reports that as expected, Lauri Love will be fighting attempts to extradite him to the U.S. to face hacking charges. The US alleges Love is a “sophisticated computer hacker” loosely affiliated with the Anonymous hacker collective, and that he “secretly infiltrated” computer systems used by a long list of government agencies including the Federal Reserve,…

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HK: Response to Media Enquiries: Personal Data Leakage Involving the Contactless Credit Cards

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Dissent

The following statement was issued by the The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data for Hong Kong: (13 October 2015) The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (“PCPD”) expresses concern over the possible personal data leakage involving the contactless credit cards issued by banks and commences a compliance check on this issue….

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UK: Hack attack probe Edinburgh council is under fire

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Dissent

Martin Hannan reports: Edinburgh City Council has been criticised by the Information Commissioner’s Office after an investigation into the way the country’s second-largest local authority deals with personal data.   […] The most damning criticism of the council was that its lack of an information security manager or overarching information security policy was contrary to…

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More details emerge on security concerns with Hillary Clinton’s private server

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Dissent

I know Clinton’s use of a private server has become a political issue, but it’s still also an infosec issue for our government. Jack Gillum and Stephen Braun of AP provide the latest revelations: Clinton’s server, which handled her personal and State Department correspondence, appeared to allow users to connect openly over the Internet to control it remotely, according…

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Study sounds the alarm on real estate website scraping and data theft

Posted on October 9, 2015 by Dissent

Andrea V. Brambila reports: Agent and broker website vendors and MLSs have had more than a decade to figure out how to protect one of the industry’s most valuable assets from theft online, but most haven’t risen to the challenge. Therefore, it’s time to mandate scraping protections, according to a white paper from real estate consulting…

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What you sound like after a data breach

Posted on October 9, 2015 by Dissent

Mark Stockley writes: Hopefully you’ve never had anything stolen in a data breach, but if you have I hope you’ve been spared the salted wound of the non-apology. There are notable exceptions of course but as data leaks and network breaches get larger, more common and more damaging, a humble sorry seems to be the hardest word. Read more…

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